Thaddeus could also be the given name of "Tad."
It always is, isn't it?
My only problem with Amanda is that her acting could been toned down slightly. She was dutifully following orders, I guess....
I'm not a soap opera person, so who falls in love with whom is less important to me than whether anything dramatic or interesting is done with it. Don't crazy romances like Q and Amanda really happen? Don't nicer people like Beth get left behind? Don't nice guys really finish last?
I think the idea of Q-Amanda being "eternal" and "pure" is ridiculous. They never spent enough time together to tell. When they get together again in 1970, they're picking up where they left off 70 years earlier, when they had "known" each other just a few weeks.